Your question seems to be directed more toward the initial act
of believing in Jesus for eternal life, right?
As we advance, the number
of those believing in religion will decline.»
This article is far slanted to the right, in hopes of inspiring the demonstrative act
of believing in mystic values that don't adhere to the self in our current civilization.
Spiritual but not religious just means that you have figured out the idiocy
of believing in a sky fairy, but don't quite have the b a l l s to come out and say so.
They had no concept
of believing in or trusting in Jesus for everlasting / eternal life, and no concept of following Jesus.
My point was that unlike the choice of whether or not to eat meat, or the choice of whether or not to worship God, the act
of believing in God is not a choice.
Grace Church is the kind of congregation where worshippers take notes during the sermon, which on this Sunday focused on the importance
of believing in Jesus» virgin birth.
Miller highlights the paradox
of believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which she claims «has strained the credulity of even the most....
So while their actions very much speak to the concept
of believing in The Christ I have talked about, their words do not.
For those who do not know it is totally irrational idea
of believing in Christianity «just in case,» because you have nothing to lose and everything to gain, and if you do not believe then you have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
My old church went through a phase
of believing in «accountability partners» where you literally delivered control of your day to day decisions and thoughts to another who was to lovingly «guide» you into spiritual maturity.
The days
of believing in god are soon over and our politicians will no longer have to pretend for the masses.
The only difference is that the condition to enter Paradise is different in Islam as compared to what you are saying and that is Belief in one True God i.e. the Creator of all things instead
of believing in the creation itself like Jesus.
They do not seem to believe in Islam — their attendance rates at prayers are extremely low — and they show no sign
of believing in anything.
Just like you explain away the bothersome aspects
of believing in imaginary sky gods by quoting scriptures.
But we have already established the fact (according the Word of God) that she was saved in the first place, and if she had died within one minute
of believing in Jesus, she would have gone to heaven.
The performance - reward system in the children's program started getting under my skin, and I realized that my struggles accepting God's love,
of believing in my worth despite my failures, might have started there.
Then and now it all comes down to the same thing: it's a matter
of believing in the one who said, «I am the Bread of Life.»
At the same time, when proposing an alternate understanding, we must never accuse those who believe in the traditional view
of believing in «Scripture plus tradition» while we believe in «the Bible alone» for even a «new view» is based in some way on previous traditions, and as soon as it is taught, becomes a tradition itself.
Muslims who slit their daughters» throats for being seen with a man are just as much a product
of believing in a god as your charitable acts are.
To me and many - in spite
of believing in Jesus not out of fear but by experience - it sounds simply not like Jesus this obligation / condition / negotiation to believe to gain whatever.
During this short time, we don't have the apparatus to fully understand God, but many of us see the fallacy
of believing in things like the «big bang» theory where ordered things come from nothingness.
I agree that rural, conservative areas will see a higher likelihood
of believing in those stories than urban areas.
At a later time, within a different intellectual tradition, the author of Job poses in a dramatic fashion the difficulty
of believing in a god like the Yahweh of the exodus.
And then discover, once and for all, the futility
of believing in imaginary friends.
Those believers might say material goods are a side effect
of believing in God and Christ, he says.
You are falling into the trap
of believing in stereotypes of Christians.
You see, the problem with knowledge derived in such a manner is that it can only be said to be true within a certain context, which is the context
of believing in it.
The book is not remotely plausible as a factual history, but after Lewis read it he was permanently incapable
of believing in Whig history.
@Chris: You said,» Everyone faces a choice
of believing in (believing on) Jesus Christ or not.
Those opposed to slavery were not big its and neither are those pointing out the insanity
of believing in imaginary sky daddies.
I totally understand the crazy notion
of believing in an invisible man in the sky.
It is the culture
of believing in the individual, that everybody has their rights, and that everybody has respect for each other.
In this case, people will come to see you as a stubborn, immovable monolith, incapable
of believing in anyone other than yourself.
Too many
of us believe in a magical being called «passion».
«
Some of them believed in the vision, but I think most of them just believed in me,» he says of his investors.
«If we send any kind of message to our premier it's that he needs to open his mind, and be open minded to the evidence that shows Canadians and, in particular, folks up in this part of the country have the knowledge, skills, and ability to build these projects, operate these projects in the national interest, and to show that we can protect the values that
all of us believe in.»
(No, sorry, you can not see that purple bubble, but I guarantee it is there —
all of us believe in it).
These were things that
all of us believed in.
Some of us believe in «live and let live» until others try to ram their belief systems down our / our childrens» throats.
He said his friend told him «Most of us play in churches, but hardly
any of us believe in God.»
(for example: most
of them believe in the American representative democracy system, a form of government not found anywhere in the Bible) Do YOU read other books than the Bible?
It turned out not only did almost
all of them believe in this invisible power, but they presented evidence from presentations every bit as fake and crackpot as you basic faith healer cr @p.
At the end
of it all I believe in God and if I die and find out he isn't real then I lose nothing.
They have made no progress towards the secular world that the rest
of us believe in today.
(
Some of us believe in abstinence as the Biblical standard, but even for those who don't, the predisposition isn't the sin - it is the act.)
Your judgement day will be based upon your actions, and not what version
of myself you believe in.
Some of us believe in this; for here and now, may they be blessed.
For the record, many
of us all believe in evolution, that the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, and many of us are, gasp!
The underground church is working very effectively... It [the war] will come down out of the north — that has to be the Soviet Union — upon the midst of the earth — Israel and the Middle East... That's why most
of us believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ.»